Summary
The United Nations reacted with shock Tuesday to a report that the Syrian regime had systematically tortured and killed thousands of prisoners in a manner one lawyer described as reminiscent of Auschwitz.
The 31-page report, written by a team of global experts and first leaked to the Guardian and CNN, is based on thousands of photographs smuggled out of Syria by a defector from Bashar Assad's government.
Three prominent international lawyers penned the report based on Caesar's testimony and concluded that there was clear evidence of "systematic torture" of 11,000 prisoners between March 2011 and August 2013 . These findings could support a prosecution of "crimes against humanity" and "war crimes," the experts said.
Although evidence of torture by the regime and the rebels has been documented before, the breadth and detail of the crimes documented in the report makes it perhaps the largest dossier on the alleged crimes of the Syrian regime.
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